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Members: WordPress Plugin by Justin Tadlock
Justin Tadlock has done it again. This time he released to the Wordpress community a user, role, and content management plugin called Members.
Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site.
So what dose this plugin do:
Edit Roles: Edit your user roles and their [...]
Add “Featured Posts” to your Thematic child theme
Featured posts are common in Wordpress magazine themes. They let you promote hot topics and bring your best articles right in front of your users.
First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes to Thematic.
The featured posts will be inserted on the home page [...]
Wordpress as a social platform
WordPress started in 2003. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. But you already knew that!
By itself this blogging tool used to be just that: a way to put [...]
Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress Also tagged social, social network, social platform 4 Comments
Street Wordpress Theme
Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed.
It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect free [...]
Future Child Themes for Thematic in the works
Spring is at it’s end and makes room for a promising Summer. Finishing the new design was a fulfilling moment for me. When you put so much effort into something, your personal expectations are always high. Building something for myself and things are prone to be problematic. In the initial stages nothing really feels right [...]
Multilingual solutions for a wordpress installation
Photo by mykreeve
From my point of view the internet has became a really crowded place. No more “build it and they will come” mentality. Today’s internet business have started to compete for every single user and the need to address all potential users is more important then ever.
This is where multilingual web-sites and web-applications come [...]
Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress Also tagged multilanguage, multilingual, plugins, translate 16 Comments
Installing Wordpress Child Themes and Customizing the Byty Theme
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Since I’ve launched by first Wordpress Child Theme based on Thematic I thought writing about how you can make small changes to the theme and put your own graphical logo, add css for other plugins, basically create a customized version of it.
This post is divided in 4 different parts, particularly:
Installing Wordpress Child Themes
Adding your [...]
Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress Also tagged child theme, installing, Thematic 14 Comments
Byty the Free Child Theme – Built on Thematic
This is my first Free to Download Child Theme. It was built for a friend of mine and we decided to release it for free in hope of some extra publicity .
In order to install it you have to download the Thematic Theme (from which this child theme inherits all of the functionality), [...]
Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress Also tagged child theme, design, Thematic, theme 75 Comments
Multilingual Wordpress – WPML Plugin Review